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We usually imagine archaeology as investigating historical finds. But you devote yourself to the contemporary past and modern material culture.

Named after a student of Max Weber who earned her doctorate at Heidelberg University and was murdered by the National Socialists in 1942 Käthe Leichter (1895-1942), who did her doctorate with the emi

Philip Bockholt researches the history of the Turkish-Persian world using historical manuscripts When historians devote their attention to translations, they are not primarily concerned with the language.

Every year, members of the Asia Minor Research Centre at Münster University spend several weeks in the summer in south-eastern Turkey to study the archaeological remains of the village of Doliche.

Geomagnetic surface survey provides accurate information for productive future excavations / Discovery of an ancient settlement close to Khirbat al-Minya With the help of geomagnetic surface surveys and subsequent hands-on digging, an excavation team from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has revealed new insights into the area in which the caliph's palace of Khirbat al-Minya was built on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.

With progressing nuclear fusion in the center of a star, brightness, size, and color also change. Astrophysicists can derive from such properties important information on age and mass of a star.

Exactly 200 years ago, on 30 July 1822, one of nine "detention cells" that then existed at the University of Jena is said to have been "decorated" in a single day.

Academies Programme supports project investigating Roman life at the Lower Germanic Limes The four Roman legionary fortresses in Bonn, Neuss, Xanten and Nijmegen still hold unexplored treasures of knowledge about the multifaceted life of the Romans on the Lower Rhine.

A memorial sculpture at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research commemorates the tragic history of the predecessor institute during the Third Reich During the Third Reich, the Kaiser Wilhelm Insti

From the philhellenism of the 1820s to contemporary support for Ukraine Many people and organisations are currently showing solidarity with Ukraine.

It is controversial whether there is or should be a fundamental change from an industrial to a service society in rich Western nations The declining importance of manufacturing in rich societies is a

Many countries have imposed massive sanctions on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine.